Robert Manenti

Robert Manenti

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Robert Manenti has been a student of the Yang style of Tai Chi at the Rhode Island School of Tai Chi for over 20 years. He studies under the guidance of John Conroy and teaches in Brooklyn, NY. He is also a nurse at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City.

Ruth Lauer-Manenti

Ruth Lauer-Manenti

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Ruth Lauer-Manenti
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Ruth Lauer-Manenti (Amala Devi) has been a student of Sharon Gannon and David Life since 1990 and has been a teacher at Jivamukti Yoga Center in NYC also since 1990. She has made over a dozen trips to India to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, who has given her written permission to teach the primary and intermediate series of Ashtanga Yoga. She also has a Master's degree in Fine Arts.

Steve Gorn

Steve Gorn

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Steve Gorn
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Steve Gorn has performed Indian classical music and new American music on the bansuri bamboo flute in concerts and festivals throughout the world. His gurus are Sri Gour Goswami of Kolkata and Pandit Raghunath Seth of Mumbai. In 2013, Steve was awarded the Pandit Jasraj Rotary Club of Hyderabad Award for Cross Cultural Achievement. He is featured on the Grammy winning recording Miho – Journey to the Mountain with Dhruba Ghosh and the Paul Winter Consort.

Shrimati Priyamvada Sankar

Shrimati Priyamvada Sankar

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Shrimati Priyamvada Sankar
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Shrimati Priyamvada Sankar first studied with her father, Dr. V. Raghavan, an eminent Sanskrit scholar, poet and musicologist. She learned the classical Indian dance form Bharata Natyam from the legendary Bala Sarasvati. For over thirty years, Priyamvada has performed in Asia, the U.S. and Canada, in addition to giving numerous lectures on South Indian music and culture. She resides in Canada and established the first Bharata Natyam dance school in Montreal.

Naren Budhakar

Naren Budhakar

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Naren Budhakar was born and brought up in the Indian classical music tradition. He began performing Tabla at a young age. A disciple of Tabla Maestro Ustad Shabbir Nisar, Naren has played with prominent instrumentalists, vocalists and dancers including Pandit Birju Maharaj, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Jasraj and Shaed Parvez. He has performed at prestigious venues in the U.S. and Europe, providing Tabla accompaniment for various musical genres. He is also a disciple of Shri Aditya Khandwe, a virtuoso vocalist of the Gwalior style of classical Indian vocal music.

Sarah Tomlinson

Sarah Tomlinson

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Sarah Tomlinson
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Sarah Tomlinson is a longtime yogini who was introduced to Ananda Ashram in the 1990s by her first yoga teachers, David Life and Sharon Gannon. She then studied Yantra painting in India with Harish Johari and continues her journey with yoga and Ayurveda today. Now a mother of two, Sarah offers guidance and support to women in all stages of motherhood. She has studied Ma Yoga prenatal yoga extensively with Mia Borgatta and is mentoring in Birth Arts Doula Work with Mavis Gewant. Sarah maintains a private practice in New York and Southern California.

Danielle (Sita) Gault

Danielle (Sita) Gault

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Danielle (Sita) Gault has a degree in Psychology and a post-graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management. She combines her Western education with an Eastern interest in Yoga and is a certified member of the Federation of Ontario Yoga Teachers. Her Yoga certificates were earned at the Yoga Centre Toronto and through her Guru, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati. Danielle has over thirty years experience in the training and development field and is the author of three books on Yoga and the natural healing arts.

Andrea Brachfeld (Kala Devi)

Andrea Brachfeld (Kala Devi)

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Kala Devi (Andrea Brachfeld)
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Andrea Brachfeld (Kala Devi) began studying the flute in childhood. A graduate of The High School of Music and Art and Manhattan School of Music, she is well established internationally as a Latin Jazz flutist. Andrea has recorded more than a dozen CDs with well-known artists and is recipient of the "Pionero" and Chico OʼFarrill awards. Currently she leads the band Phoenix Rising. Andrea also practiced Yoga and meditation from a young age, which helped her realize that her purpose in life was to share her music by playing the flute to heal herself and others.

Shrimati Kankana Banerjee

Shrimati Kankana Banerjee

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Shrimati Kankana Banerjee
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Shrimati Kankana Banerjee is a well-known classical Indian singer. Born in Kolkata, she first studied Hindustani music with her mother. As a child she was introduced to the renowned vocalist Ustad Amir Khan of Indore, from whom she received intensive training during her formative years. She gave her first performance at age 14. Later, Kankana also studied with Pt. Pratap Narain of the Mewati Gharana. She has performed regularly at major Indian venues and internationally and has released a number of independent recordings.

Jules Febre

Jules Febre

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Jules Febre
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Jules Febre was born and raised in the Lower East Side, NYC, and has been practicing Jivamukti Yoga since the age of six. He assists Jivamukti co-founders Sharon Gannon and David Life and teaches around the world. Currently, he teaches at Jivamukti NYC. Jules has also taught in the New York City public school system and at homeless shelters in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

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